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From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross S. W. Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TWO 3Com 3c579 with FreeBSD - will that work ?
Date: 3 Dec 1995 23:15:46 GMT
Organization: Quanta Communications, Inc.
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References: <491l2m$kne@sidhe.cedocar.fr> <1995Nov29.145958.4662@hasler.ascom.ch> <49ktnp$7kr@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) wrote:
: In article <1995Nov29.145958.4662@hasler.ascom.ch>,
: Norbert Bladt <nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch> wrote:
: > After a few hours of (idle) operation I noticed the message
: > 	"ep0: Status 2002"
: > on the screen.
: > I wonder, what that means ! I don't know exactly when that happened, though.

: I don't think it is harmful. Something has failed (look into if_ep.c) but I
: don't know what  :-) You'd better ask  the FreeBSD lists  if you're worried
: though. 
:  
: > After that "root" was not allowed to use telnet nor ftp from remote to this
: > FBSD system.

: > 	1. Why was "root" not prevented from logging in at the beginning ?
: > 	2. Why was every connection as "root" not rejected by other systems
: >  at the beginning ? 

: I don't know. 

: > Is there a "timeout" or any other event which will trigger this ?

I don't know about the other problems, but ep status 2002 is buffer
overrun I believe. I get those quite frequently here too, but there
of no real concern. 3com puts too small of a buffer in their cards,
I get these messages on NT too. I'm going to upgrade to SMC Etherpower
people say these are faster and better designed cards. I get a lot
of buffer overruns on my news server with a full feed ;-).

Cheers,

Ross Walker

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